Millions of households, with tens of millions of nomadic or semi nomadic people, tend camels, sheep, goats, and other livestock, which they move large distances to reach rain fed pasturelands.

Most herders in Mongolia follow a pattern of nomadic or semi nomadic pastoralism.

A severe drought in 1998 caused the displacement of approximately 100,000 nomadic people from the Registan desert region.

Millions of people have been forced to abandon their lands as farming and nomadic lifestyles have become unsustainable.

Restrictions on nomadic ways of life

In Mongolia for instance, where 30 percent of the people are nomadic, SMS information systems are being used to track migration and weather patterns.

The expression Saami village has a colonial heritage stemming from laws for farmers and settlers that the Swedish government imposed on the nomadic Saami people.

Farmers are also continuously harassed by militia and nomadic groups.

Obstacles are numerous and complex and include, among others, distance to schools, differences in lifestyles, for example, nomadic and semi nomadic communities, discrimination, violence, extreme poverty and exclusion

In Kazakhstan s case, this meant corralling nomadic herders and their cattle into collective farms, where everything would be collectively managed for the good of the people.

Today, there are some 50 million nomadic herders in Sub Saharan Africa, and as many as 150 million agro pastoralists, who combine traditional nomadic animal rearing with some form of agriculture.

Because it bordered the desert, Gaza was vulnerable to warring nomadic groups.

With global problems like food insecurity and climate change threatening livelihoods around the world, nomadic and pastoral lifestyles have the potential to protect and sustain millions of people.

He noted that as a result of massive environmental degradation millions of people had been forced to abandon their lands, because farming and nomadic lifestyles had become unsustainable.

These fundamentalists, becoming bandits of sorts, came to terms with the nomadic traffickers.

During this period, all humans lived as hunter gatherers, and were generally nomadic.

The Cumans (Turkish kuman plural kumanlar , , , , Polovtsy , Polovtsi , Czech Plavci, , German Falones, Phalagi, Valvi, Valewen, Valani) were a Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman Kipchak confederation.

We believe that that anniversary provides a welcome opportunity to trigger renewed interest in nomadic civilization and to facilitate the efforts of Member States to preserve and develop nomadic culture and traditions in modern society.

She was the third of a total of 10 siblings of a nomadic family.

Particular difficulties regarding nomadic peoples were brought to the attention of the Working Group.

Among the rivers and streams, the Sumerian people built the first cities along with irrigation canals which were separated by vast stretches of open desert or swamp where nomadic tribes roamed.

Nomadic populations move freely back and forth across the vast and porous Afghanistan Pakistan border.

The Committee notes with appreciation the provision of mobile schools for children of nomadic communities.

That ability is even more useful in view of such environmental threats as deforestation, desertification and soil erosion, which affect the livelihoods of people and developmental prospects in many countries, including nomadic societies.

The whole might of the Kyrgyz Nomadic Spirit, the intimate, magical fluids of our mountainous country.

But beginning by the 19th century, Ottoman government began settling nomadic tribes to former fief lands.

The blog of the Tuareg movement Temoust Survie publishes a post (via information from l'Express ) that provides a brief introduction to the Tuareg culture we are a nomadic people living from farming and trade.

Yet we live in an era when political boundaries, not the lives of nomadic pastoralists, are sacrosanct.

Livelihoods are supported by semi nomadic livestock rearing in the north and subsistence farming in the south.

Policymakers often view nomadic pastoralism as an archaic and unproductive way of life, with little economic benefit.

Later, they exchanged some possessions for cattle and joined a nomadic Kazakh auyl (village) in the countryside.

The Afghan National Vulnerability Programme identifies the nomadic Kuchis as one of the five most vulnerable groups.

However, the role and contribution of nomadic civilizations has, by and large, received little attention to date.

Many were children of nomadic herders, who moved south in May and June in search of better pastures.

Background Like other societies in history, South Asia has been attacked by nomadic tribes throughout its long history.

And it's a really poor area. I represent Northern Kenya the most nomadic, remote areas you can even find.

This provision, reflecting no change over the 2005 revised estimates, will be used to extend the current Nomadic facilities.

Recognizing the richness of nomadic civilization and its important contribution to promoting dialogue and interaction among all forms of civilization,

Recognizing the richness of nomadic civilization and its important contribution to promoting dialogue and interaction among all forms of civilization,

1. Welcomes the efforts of Member States, including Mongolia, to preserve and develop nomadic culture and traditions in modern societies

The Bushmen, or San, have inhabited the lands for thousands of years since they roamed the area as nomadic hunters.

It has also helped with a study on the education needs of nomadic communities in the United Republic of Tanzania.

An example of that is the great nomadic civilization of the Eurasian steppe, of which my country is a part.

This new figure includes nearly 1.9 million internally displaced persons and over 200,000 refugees in Chad, plus drought affected people and nomadic communities that have been affected by the conflict but did not begin to receive humanitarian assistance until early 2005.

Seventh, the rebel movements should commit themselves not to block or disrupt peaceful seasonal movements of nomadic tribes and their cattle.